Protest meeting was held last Friday, october twenty third down town Santiago, to denounce the repression held against the Mapuche communities in the south of the country.

During the last months of this year the official violence has been very hard towards the Mapuche communities who are asking for their ancestral land in the south of the country, specially between Temuco and Temucuicui.

The increasing repression with a person killed by the police untilnow, has not finished yet. To all this we have to add new and violence breaking into communities to recover land (in the hands of forestall enterprises and landowners) the arrest of different Mapuche leaders who are trialed under the antiterrorist law which was created during the military dictatorship which many internationals human rights are against.

Against all this, many Mapuche organizations and friends protested down town Santiago for this strong repression. The traffic was stopped for some hours and riots with special police force ware held leaving teen persons arrested, two of them social communicators of a radio who were taken while working beside their equipment was broken.